Animal Magick the Art of Recognizing and Working with Familiars

This book is divided into several sections, each section contains a different class of animal. It tells about the different types of energy each animal has and how to use that energy in magickal workings as well as the messages they have for us. Sometimes we cannot work with the physical animal itself so we have to work with them on the astral plain, ie meditation. They are always there to help us out, we just have to stop and pay attention to what they have to tell us. A great book for a shaman or a witch, DJ Conway has done it again. She is such a great author.

This is the book that i first bought when i started studying more of animal magick, meditating to find animal spirits, and trying to work with familiars in general. I must say that this book was a great help. It gives examples of meditations and rituals of how to work with familiars. It also gives an index of animals and their history, and traits, so that you may find an animal that you can correspond with. It also gives a list of deites with familiars that they are portayed to be with. This book is definetly worth buying, and great for quick references.

The mojority of this book is telling you about each and every animal, its legends, supersition, how it is seen by some cultures, and a chant, which is a usefull starter for making your own chant, although I would recomened not useing them without your own adaptations... I see this book as a good referance... and a good view point as many books on animal magick are from a shaman or native american view.

This was the second D.J. Conway book I got, and I loved it from the beginning. Lots of info on animals and their magickal traits, many rituals geared toward animals, great meditations I found extremely helpful for many occasions (like the one where you transform yourself into an animal to gather certain traits for a time) and I, like another reveiwer, found the Four Corner Wolves to be a very good find! I have a kinship with wolves like you'd neve imagine. This was a great book indeed!

I bought this book as something to read on the plane back to Europe. When I was done I realized that this book was what I was looking for. I already believed in animal spirits and practised what I learned from friends on meditating to my specific animal. This book really brought me into a new life and a new spirituality which is really helping me in life.